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| 520 || Vegetarianism || Advocacy || Buddhist monk {{w|Boddhidharma}} introduces {{w|Zen}} in {{w|China}}. Boddhidharma teaches vegetarianism.<ref name="China & Vegetarianism">{{cite web |title=China & Vegetarianism |url=https://ivu.org/history/east/china.html |website=ivu.org |accessdate=7 October 2019}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
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| 973–1057 || Veganism || Adoption || Arab poet {{w|al-Maʿarri}} is recognized as one of the earliest known vegans.<ref>D. S. Margoliouth, "Abu‘l-'Alā al-Ma‘arrī's Correspondence on Vegetarianism", ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'', 34(02), 1902 (289–332), 290. {{doi|10.1017/s0035869x0002921x}} {{jstor|25208409}}</ref> ||
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| 1398 || Vegetarianism || Advocacy || Indian mystic poet {{w|Kabir}} calls to compassion, condemning meat-eating and killing of animals no matter if it is permitted in the "Koran" or any other Scripture for "sacrificial" purposes.<ref name="from 1400 to 1800">{{cite web |title=Timeline of Vegetarian History - from 1400 to 1800 |url=https://ivu.org/history2/timeline/pre-1800.html |website=ivu.org |accessdate=8 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=KABIR'S CALL TO COMPASSION |url=https://ivu.org/congress/wvc57/souvenir/kabir.html |website=ivu.org |accessdate=8 October 2019}}</ref> || {{w|India}}
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| 1806 || Veganism || Concept development || "Fast forward to 1806 CE and the The earliest concepts of {{w|veganism are just starting }} start to take shape, with Dr William Lambe and Percy Bysshe Shelley amongst the first Europeans to publicly object to eggs and dairy on ethical grounds."<ref name="The Vegan Society"/> ||
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| 1809 || Vegetarianism || Organization || The [[w:Bible Christian Church (vegetarian)|Bible Christian Church]], a [[w:Christian vegetarianism|Christian vegetarian]] sect, is founded by {{w|William Cowherd}}.<ref name=desc>{{cite web|author=Julia Twigg|year=1981|url=http://www.ivu.org/history/thesis/bible-christian.html|title=The Bible Christian Church|publisher=International Vegetarian Union|accessdate=}}</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1813 || Literature Vegetarianism || Literature (book) || English poet {{w|Percy Bysshe Shelley}} publishes ''{{w|A Vindication of Natural Diet}}'', advocating "abstinence from animal food and spirituous liquors". ||{{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1815 || || || " in 1815, [[William Lambe]], a London physician, claimed that his "water and vegetable diet" could cure anything from tuberculosis to acne."<ref>James C. Whorton, ''Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, 69–70: "Word of these cures of pimples, consumption, and virtually all ailments in between was widely distributed by his several publications ..."{{pb}} [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]], [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38727 ''A Vindication of Natural Diet''], London: F. Pitman, 1884 [1813]; William Lambe, Joel Shew, [https://books.google.com/books?id=E9anzEClAaYC ''Water and Vegetable Diet''], New York: Fowler's and Wells, 1854 [London, 1815].</ref> || {{w|United Kingdom}}
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| 1839 || Vegetarianism || Concept development || "The term "vegetarian" has been in use since around 1839 to refer to what was previously described as a vegetable regimen or diet."<ref>Rod Preece, ''Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought'', Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uMnubkF5HjAC&pg=PA12 12].</ref> ||
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| 1847 || Vegetarianism || Organization || {{w|Vegetarian Society}} || {{w|United Kingdom}}
